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ZARNCKE, See also:FRIEDRICH KARL THEODOR (1825–1891) , See also:German philologist, was See also:born on the 7th of See also:July 1825 at Zahrenstorf, near Bruel, in See also:Mecklenburg, the son of a See also:country pastor. He was educated at the See also:Rostock gymnasium, and studied (1844–1847) at the See also:universities of Rostock, See also:Leipzig and See also:Berlin. In 1848 he was employed in arranging the valuable library of Old German literature of Freiherr Karl Hartwig von Meusebach (1781–1847), and superintending its removal from Baumgartenbrtick, near See also:Potsdam, to the Royal Library at Berlin. In 185o he founded at Leipzig the Literarisches Centralblatt far Deutschland. In 1852 he established himself as Privatdozent at the university of Leipzig, and published an excellent edition of See also:Sebastian See also:Brant's Narrenschiff (1854), a See also:treatise Zur Nibelungenfrage (1854), followed by an edition of the See also:Nibelungenlied (1856, 12th ed. 1887), and Beitrage zur Erlduterung and Geschichte See also:des Nibelungenliedes (1857). In 1858 he was appointed full See also:professor, and commenced a See also:series of noteworthy studies on See also:medieval literature, most of which were published in the reports (Berichte) of the Saxon Society of Sciences. Among them were that on the old High German poem Muspilli (1866) ; Gesang vom heiligen Georg (1874) ; the See also:legend of the Priester Johannes (1874); Der Graltempel (1876), and the Annolied (1887). He also wrote a valuable treatise on See also:Christian See also:Reuter (1884), on the portraits of See also:Goethe (1884), and published the See also:history of Leipzig university, See also:Die urkundlichen Quellen zur Geschichte der Universitat Leipzig (1857) and Die deutschen Universithten See also:im Mittelalter (1857). Two volumes of his Kleine Schriften appeared in 1897. See Zur Erinnerung an den Heimgang von Dr Friedrich Zarncke (1891); See also:Franz See also:Vogt in Zeitschrift See also:fur deutsche Philologie; Eduard Zarncke in Biographisches Jahrbuch fur Altertumsioissenschaft (1895) and E. Sievers in Aligemeine deutsche Biographie.

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